Iowa Fruit Prospects and Farm Reports Decline to Year
Iowa fruit crops show mixed prospects with apples and pears at lower yields while grapes remain light in the east and near normal in the west. Government corn estimates rise to 363 million bushels. wheat dips. Rail employes near 49,900 with total wages around 27 million dollars. A town guard fatality reported from 1816 mobilization, infantile paralysis cases rise to 49 statewide, and absent voter law slated for wide benefi t ahead of November elections. Strikes and escapes mark prison and local public works, with drainage and bridge projects announced in several counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Wesley Greene
State Railroad Commission
Frank Small
Third Infantry
Oskaloosa
Fort Brown
Small
Fluld
Chia Company
State Board of Health
Cerro Gordo County
Port County
Barwick
Cerro Gordo
Towa
Fort Dodge
William
Roque
Rotterdam
Cleveland
Dubuque
Reque
Iowa College
Blackhawk County Board
Waterloo
Hawkeye Highway
Waterlow
Board of Supervisora of
Crawford County
Iowa State college adds dorm and buildings with new facilities
The State college plans three new structures at Amos costing 126000 including Animal husbandry laboratory dormitory No 3 and a hospital extension. The college will also complete new science building and dormitory No 2 for women to open next school year.
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Iowa State College
Jual
Margaret Hall
Jamon Fenlon
Idwa
United States
Des Moines
Ifay
Fenlon
Woodmanse
Pany
Freeport
Ill
Iowa
Minnesota
Towa
Hamilton County
Webster City
Migaissippi River Power Company
Keokuk
Dlinois
C. A. Robbins
Mississippi River Power Company
Wesley Greene
Atate Horticulturist
Missouri Valley
State Board of Education
Amos
R. A. Pearson
North McGregor i
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department
Robert Williams
George W. Clarke
Tama
Williams
Tilda Steward
Dillon
Steward
Wendall Foote
Cosson
Grinnell Canning Factory
Spansd
Benton County Board of Supervisors
Syste
Benton County
All Enthusiaste
Vinton Gas Company
Income from Iowa Secretary of State Surges Amid Auto Fees
Iowa revenue from the secretaries of state office rose to 3.42 million dollars in the last two years ending July 1 1918 mainly from auto registration fees which mostly returned to counties for road work. Other income sources include corporate filings land office fees and trade marks. The report notes an overall doubling from the prior period and outlines shifts of fee collection to the legislature and related departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Allen
General Assembly
Iowa
Highway Commission
Daeda
Secretary of State
Jos. F. Wall
County Accounting Department
Bees force closure at Langworth school in Oakdale
Forty pupils were held prisoner for about a half day when a burning swarm of bees hived on the roof of Langworth school in Oakdale. Students and teacher Ida Warford sheltered as bees swarmed inside. Parents returned armed with sulfur to rout the hive and free the children, though several were stung.
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Baldlera
Iowa
Harry Shockley
Company B
Shockley
Browneville
Oakdale
Cal
Langworth School
Atera
Ida Warford
Helds
Woman Uncovers Husband Death Motive In Bible Coded Clues
Mrs Thomas Sawyer solved her husband Bowyer Sawyer's death mystery after finding a Bible open to Genesis chapter twenty two with pencil interlines describing Abraham's sacrifice. Bowyer reportedly built a pyre of wood and stones and set himself on fire at a ranch near Castle Rock Colorado. The burned remains were found among ashes and charred timber, unidentifiable except for the Bible.
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Castle Rock
Colo
Here
Thomas Sawyer
Abraham
Isaac
Old pipe hunt ends with old pupil’s tumble
Horace Emmons, now 65, revisited the Itila schoolhouse in Winchester, locating a stone wall where, as a fifteen year old in 1900, he hid a pipe. He crawled beneath the stones fifty years later searching for the pipe but did not find it, answering classmates he was looking for his first pipe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Emmons
Winsted
Conn
Horace _Eimmons
Northville
Itila
Winchester
Q Rewnlon
Nelle Miller
Mr. Hmmons
Bolt Razed Bedroom. Three Children Unharmed in Crumbling Home
A bolt of nightning struck the Crooks residence in Wausau Wisconsin, entering a bedroom where three children slept and shattering bed posts. Plaster from the ceiling covered one child, yet none were injured as all remained asleep during the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolt
Wausau
Wia
L. D. Crooks
No Change Bill How Times Have Changed
Dialogue fragment contrasts Manhattan values across centuries. Speaker notes that three centuries ago inland Manhattan was worth 24 dollars, while parts now merit forty million dollars per acre. Exchange implies perceived change while two speakers dispute the extent of value shifts.
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Manhattan
Cure Pimples With Cuticura Ointment and Soap
Advert describes Cuticura Ointment for pimples to be applied for five minutes then washed with Cuticura Soap, recommends rising and retiring use, and offers a free mail sample by postcard. Also includes a clergyman joke about a sermon passage and Father Healy’s quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuticura
Beatom
Hammers of History in Saints and Warriors
Philadelphia Evening Ledger lists famed hammers of heretics and schisms through history such as Pierre d Auly who condemned John Huss, Judas Maccabeus, the Hebrew warrior, St Augustine, John Faber author of a book, St Hilary, and Charles Martel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre d'Auly
John Huss
Judas Asmonneus
Maccabeus
St. Augua+ting
John Faber
Bammer of
St. Hilary
Haramer
Charlies Martel
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
Paradoxical Procedure In Crossword Style Riddle
A paradoxical line plays with submarine imagery and rebus style wordplay. The speaker teases how a hidden object might outwit watching foes, then hints at a counterintuitive move that transforms danger into advantage in a cryptic exchange.
Mother seeks sons in law to do her justice
A fragment notes a mother insisting her daughters must supply sons in law to satisfy a sense of justice. No full context or names available.
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Iowa State Board of Health
Guilford H. Sumner
Coplea
Iowa National Guard
Fourth United States Infantry
Brownaville
Neild B. Soderholm
Herold M. Putnam
Washington
Thomas Ao Munson
Rothermael
le Mars
Preston B
Waterbury
Soux City
Ralph
Gleger
Cherokee
Waleter
Thompson
Boone
Bartley
First Iowa Infantry
Towa National Guard
Uncle Sam
Citiea
Texas
W. H. Willams
Revenue Clerk
Auditor of State
Executive Council
Quincy Willis Ban
Automobile Department
Pottawattania
Kossuth
State
Cedar Fadlé
John T. Charles
J.B. Paul
Peter Lutem
Catherine Wilson
Margaret Uttley
Alfee Wagenvoord
Maude’. Thompson
Margaret van Horsen
Ning Baumgartner
Hulaie Turner
Mary Murphy
Town State College
Ames
R. F. Hall
KB. C. Churchill
Iowa Na- Dlonial Guard
Fort Des Moines
George Morgan
Wilson
Brownsville
H. A. Allen
Hird
War Department
Fred Hird
Charles Kubing
John Stewart
Hubert Allen
Patrchild
Lambert
Pruesener
McConaghy
Judge Advocate Mahoney
State Free Employment Bureau
Hunt
Stdy
William Fitzpatrick
Frank Russell
Fost Madison Penitentiary
Attite Board of Education
United States Bureau of Education
Government
State Hospital
State Board of Control
Knoxville
M. C. Mackin
Story County
Nevada
Mimself
Spagi HE Etti Skinner
Ob Omaia USA
Esexedal Ae
Absorbine, JR
W.f.young
Temple
Springfield
Hoyt
al Gropaier
Vv. N. Y
Chicago
Father Healy
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